Thursday, 18 March 2010
Click the link to go to the web site of WAMC
WAMC, Albany, N.Y. — news/talk, jazz
and other music, plus an archive of national productions
Computer control was too expensive to contemplate in the early days (computer rental was over a million dollars), so a variety of techniques were tried: punched paper tape (Babbit's work on the RCA machine), recorded control signals (Subotnik's Butterflies) and elaborate digital sequencers (early Tangerine Dream).